{"id":569625,"date":"2026-08-01T02:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/569625\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T02:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T02:06:08","slug":"fresh-android-17-qpr1-beta-8-update-released-for-pixel-phones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/569625\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresh Android 17 QPR1 Beta 8 Update Released for Pixel Phones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We might have started testing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.droid-life.com\/2026\/07\/20\/google-releases-android-17-qpr2-beta-1-for-pixel\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android 17 QPR2 beta builds<\/a> earlier in the month, but Google still has to get QPR1 ready for a stable release in September. Today, Google gave us Android 17 QPR1 Beta 8 and it is available on your Pixel phone immediately.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The update is mostly minor and provides 4 noteworthy bug fixes. Google took care of an audio framework buffer management issue, another bug for the Pixel Tablet Speaker Dock, an NFC tag failure, and a a fingerprint authentication issue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This update is available as build CP31.260623.010 for the Pixel 6 and Pixel 6 Pro up through the Pixel 10 series and Pixel 10a.<\/p>\n<p>Release dateJuly 31, 2026BuildsCP31.260623.010Emulator supportx86 (64-bit), ARM (v8-A)Security patch level2026-07-05Google Play services26.22.36<\/p>\n<p>Android 17 QPR1 Beta 8 bug fixes<\/p>\n<p>An audio framework buffer management issue that caused unexpected, loud audio corruption and static during media playback and notification interactions. (Issue #509007703, Issue #508456570, Issue #512158576, Issue #514265107, Issue #520904833, Issue #519636478, Issue #517242741, Issue #519578674, Issue #519191172, Issue #507873728, Issue #519418933, Issue #517194839, Issue #516440003, Issue #514606256, Issue #514047990, Issue #513681197, Issue #512813456, Issue #512212036, Issue #500342049, Issue #498147587, Issue #505780177, Issue #523640480, Issue #524719397, Issue #523304213, Issue #531669961, Issue #534620345, Issue #536625907, Issue #536292570, Issue #538400224, Issue #541204384, Issue #541243460, Issue #541257484)<\/p>\n<p>An issue where the Pixel Tablet Speaker Dock would frequently go offline or fail to connect when attached. (Issue #530716719)<\/p>\n<p>An NFC service regression that causes affected NFC tags to fail to read data or open URLs. (Issue #523935317)<\/p>\n<p>An issue where fingerprint authentication is not triggered when attempting to unlock the device. (Issue #523276531, Issue #526923270)<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Remember, Android 17 QPR1 Beta hit platform stability in Beta 6, so the last two updates have been simple bug fixers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The easiest route to get this update is through the Android Beta Program (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/android\/beta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sign-up<\/a>). If you are into flashing images, there are OTA images available (<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/17\/qpr1\/download-ota\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>) too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.android.com\/about\/versions\/17\/qpr1\/release-notes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Android<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We might have started testing Android 17 QPR2 beta builds earlier in the month, but Google still has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":569626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":["post-569625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=569625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/569625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/569626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=569625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=569625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=569625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}